Sustainability

This text offers a holistic approach to the two topics of the highest interest in the current and future food industry: sustainability and nutrition.

This book explores the new rules and codes that are required in order to foster the implementation of smart city technologies with a view to meeting the environmental and energy challenges posed by dynamic contemporary cities with increasing populations.

This book describes the existential threats facing the global water systems from population growth and economic development, unsustainable use, environmental change, and weak and fragmented governance.

The green transition is the way to a sustainable and fair planet, and necessary to secure supply chains, deliver predictable prices, and ensure access to raw materials despite resource scarcity through sustainable production and consumption.

A provocative reassessment of the relationship between states and environmental politics in Africa From climate-related risks such as crop failure and famine to longer-term concerns about sustainable urbanization, environmental justice, and biodiversity conservation, African states face a range of environmental issues.

A poet at heart, Amy Minato rejects her life of consumption in Chicago to go back to naturespecifically, to a commune in Oregon, where she rediscovers herself.

Roadmapping is a structured visual approach for supporting strategic technology and innovation management, providing strategic navigational support (hence the "e;roadmap"e; metaphor) for technologists, designers, entrepreneurs, programme managers, executives, policy makers, other stakeholders involved in the formulation and implementation of strategy.

This book offers support for interdisciplinary research on the interactions of nature and society.

This book takes a wide-ranging and non-dogmatic view of SDG12, tackling various approaches as to how production and consumption can provide for human well-being while minimizing destructive effects on the biophysical environment.

This book highlights the multi-pronged strategy for achieving sustainable rural domestic water supply in India.

Winner of the 2022 Urban Affairs Association Best Book Award.

In a time of unprecedented transformation as society seeks to build a more sustainable future, education plays an increasingly central role in training key agents of change.

The pursuit of sustainability has generated lifestyle changes for individuals across the globe; innovations within the arts and sciences, business, design, engineering, and agriculture; historic policies and laws at municipal and state levels; and crucial international protocols and agreements.

Examining the roles, impacts and challenges of civil society organizations (CSOs) in Latin America, this volume provides a broad perspective on the range of strategies these organizations employ and the obstacles they face in advocating for and delivering educational reform.

By the end of the 1970s, contaminated sites had emerged as one of the most complex and urgent environmental issues affecting industrialized countries.

This book examines the evolution of foreign aid policy in Japan and South Korea, analyzing policy rationales, institutional developments and policy choices.

"e;Quantitative Eco-nomics"e; cuts through the fog of vision and advocacy by comparing and applying new quantitative tools of both environmental and ecological economics.

This book approaches three important aspects related with urban regeneration such as research, innovation and challenges.

Materials have the potential to be the centrepiece for the transition to viable renewable energy technologies if they realise a specific suite of properties and achieve a desired set of performance metrics.

This book assesses the impact and implementation of national qualifications frameworks in sixteen different countries.

Recent advances in the industrial application and industrial development of seaweeds are important in addressing the world's growing needs for healthy nutrients.

Why do some countries' economies struggle to develop, even when they are the focus of so much research and international funding?

Critical Mobile Pedagogy is an exploration of mobile technologies for designing and delivering equitable and empowering education around the globe.

This volume provides comprehensive coverage of ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) principles, offering an exhaustive examination of foundational concepts, specific factors, and their integration into investment analysis, ensuring a holistic understanding of the subject.

This book highlights cutting-edge ecodesign research, covering product and service design, smart manufacturing, and social perspectives in ecodesign.

This book sets out some positive directions to move forward including government policy and regulatory options, an innovative GRID (Greening, Regenerative, Improvement Districts) scheme that can assist with funding and management, and the first steps towards an innovative carbon credit scheme for the built environment.

Finding alternatives to fossil feedstocks is increasing in importance with the challenges of global warming, increasing oil prices and depleting fossil fuel reserves that we currently face.

Environmental impacts created by the textiles and fashion sector are well known and acknowledged by various stakeholders involved in the entire supply chain.

This book shows how the change of water paradigm has become urgent, and provides evidence for new policies that expand water balance to green and virtual water.

This book explores the drivers and impacts of sand mining in the coastal areas of Lagos Nigeria.

This is a multidisciplinary volume on the use of agricultural biotechnology to provide a sustainable food supply.

This book covers the nexus between urban health, sustainability, and peace.

In Regenerative Tourism Industry, authors Geetanjali Sageena and Suneel Kumar take an in-depth and practical approach to regenerative tourism.

This book presents an assessment of endeavors towards Financial Inclusion and its role in Sustainable development.

Discusses the benefits and risks, as well as the economic and socio-political realities, of rewilding as a novel conservation tool.

This book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at the IconSWM 2018 conference, which explore various aspects of urban mining.

This book capitalizes on two hot topics: the Low Carbon Emission Development Strategies and climate change in Asian cities.

Sustainable aviation is a long-term strategy aimed at providing innovative solutions to the challenges facing the aviation industry.

This volume describes the recent developments in the free-radical mediated synthesis and elaboration of heterocycles.

This book reviews empirical and theoretical research on sustainable development in the context of leisure management for communities.

This book analyses the institutional development that the Peruvian state has undergone in recent years within a context of rapid extractive industry expansion.

This book presents and analyzes aspects that, within the framework of luxury, have been or are currently being redefined by sustainability considerations.

The book presents a rich collection of research studies on the theory and practice of corporate integrated reporting (IR) in South Asia.

This edited volume focuses on economic integration, currency union, and sustainable and inclusive growth in East Africa.

This book provides technical information on different biological and hybrid wastewater treatment systems for treatment of wastewater and reuse.

This edited book provides a solid foundation for future research on cooling cities, climate change impacts on cities and urban environments, and innovative mitigation and adaptation strategies.